AST SpaceMobile in the news: Verizon is teaming up to deliver space-based cellular service next year, raising stock talk after Blue Origin setback. Public company: TX-based satellite designer, SpaceMobile constellation.
Blue Origin has lost a New Glenn rocket in a catastrophic engine test at Cape Canaveral, producing a fireball that damaged the LC‑36A pad and generated seismic waves. Jeff Bezos and CEO Dave Limp have said key propellant tanks and some hardware survived and the company has begun a pad rebuild, while NASA is offering technical support for Artemis-related schedules.